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| author | nasso <nassomails@gmail.com> | 2025-05-08 13:16:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jussi.pakkanen@mailbox.org> | 2025-05-14 22:34:02 +0300 |
| commit | a096df02e17f8f0644f988c10986688d97ec1a66 (patch) | |
| tree | f157e4259107261536de7b32520dc50b3c927b13 | |
| parent | 14010f4dfdb9847944592149b189184ab59b6de0 (diff) | |
| download | meson-a096df02e17f8f0644f988c10986688d97ec1a66.tar.gz | |
docs: gender neutral pronouns for "the user"
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Design-rationale.md | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Overview.md | 10 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Design-rationale.md b/docs/markdown/Design-rationale.md index 41339794d..c5207732a 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Design-rationale.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Design-rationale.md @@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ may not work. In some cases the executable file is a binary whereas at other times it is a wrapper shell script that invokes the real binary which resides in a hidden subdirectory. GDB invocation fails if the binary is a script but succeeds if it is not. The user has to remember -the type of each one of his executables (which is an implementation -detail of the build system) just to be able to debug them. Several -other such pain points can be found in [this blog +the type of each executable (which is an implementation detail of the +build system) just to be able to debug them. Several other such pain +points can be found in [this blog post](http://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2011/09/13/autotools/). Given these idiosyncrasies it is no wonder that most people don't want @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ and so on. Sometimes you just have to compile files with only given compiler flags and no others, or install files in weird places. The system must -allow the user to do this if he really wants to. +allow the user to do this. Overview of the solution -- @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ passing around compiler flags and linker flags. In the proposed system the user just declares that a given build target uses a given external dependency. The build system then takes care of passing all flags and settings to their proper locations. This means that the user can focus -on his own code rather than marshalling command line arguments from +on their own code rather than marshalling command line arguments from one place to another. A DSL is more work than the approach taken by SCons, which is to diff --git a/docs/markdown/Overview.md b/docs/markdown/Overview.md index 7bee93789..f41a3b7a9 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Overview.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Overview.md @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ short-description: Overview of the Meson build system Meson is a build system that is designed to be as user-friendly as possible without sacrificing performance. The main tool for this is a -custom language that the user uses to describe the structure of his -build. The main design goals of this language has been simplicity, -clarity and conciseness. Much inspiration was drawn from the Python -programming language, which is considered very readable, even to -people who have not programmed in Python before. +custom language used to describe the structure of the build. The main +design goals of this language has been simplicity, clarity and +conciseness. Much inspiration was drawn from the Python programming +language, which is considered very readable, even to people who have +not programmed in Python before. Another main idea has been to provide first class support for modern programming tools and best practices. These include features as varied |